1.Cf. Anthologia graeca 16.107, a poem on a bronze statue of Icarus,
translated by Alciato at Selecta epigrammata (Cornarius, ed.) p.333. Icarus and his father
Daedalus (see [A49a008]) escaped from King Minos of Crete on wings of feathers and wax.
Icarus was over-bold and flew too near the sun; when his wings melted, he crashed into the
Icarian Sea and was drowned. See Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.183ff. Icarus, like Phaethon
(see [A49a064]) was a type of those who do not keep to their proper station.